Hospitalization patient forecasting based on multi-task deep learning

Zhou, Min ; Huang, Xiaoxiao  ; Liu, Haipeng ; Zheng, Dingchang

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Tome 33 (2023) no. 1, pp. 151-162.

Résumé

Forecasting the number of hospitalization patients is important for hospital management. The number of hospitalization patients depends on three types of patients, namely, admission patients, discharged patients, and inpatients. However, previous works focused on one type of patients rather than the three types of patients together. In this paper, we propose a multi-task forecasting model to forecast the three types of patients simultaneously. We integrate three neural network modules into a unified model for forecasting. Besides, we extract date features of admission and discharged patient flows to improve forecasting accuracy. The algorithm is trained and evaluated on a real-world data set of a one-year daily observation of patient numbers in a hospital. We compare the performance of our model with eight baselines over two real-word data sets. The experimental results show that our approach outperforms other baseline algorithms significantly.

Détail

Keywords: hospitalization patient, neural network, multitask learning
Mots-clés : pacjent hospitalizowany, sieć neuronowa, nauka wielozadaniowa

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